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Thank you. I

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just had a stroke on camera. Don't

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worry about it. What did you just

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do? She

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tried to do lots of winking but it looked like your

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doll eye thing. Oh

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my little... Oh you're

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really good at that. Thank you. Ever seen that Katy Perry clip

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where she like does the doll thing on stage and then she

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like hits herself in the head and it's like... It's

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really creepy. Katy Perry's creepy.

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It upsets me that she named herself after her

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cat. Did she? Yeah,

1:02

Katy Perry is because her cat's name is

1:04

Kitty Purry. Oh. Wait,

1:06

what's Katy Perry's real name? She has a

1:08

different last name. Katie Hudson. Is it actually?

1:11

I don't know why that's in my... Oh, Kate Hudson's taken

1:13

already though. I don't know why that's in my brain. Good

1:15

point. I take it back. She's

1:17

right. Kitty Purry. I know someone in

1:20

real life named Katy Perry and

1:23

it's funny and then she's

1:25

like... Unfortunate. It's funny sometimes but most

1:27

of the time it's just like kind of unfortunate. Yeah,

1:29

just stop it. It's one of those things where people just

1:31

go, oh, every time you say a name you just have to deal

1:33

with people going, oh, that's like the... Sure

1:36

fucking is, yeah. Every time. Yeah. One

1:39

of Evelyn's editor, his name is Nate Drake. And

1:43

that's not fake. That's his actual name. I

1:46

do think that's cool. Yeah. It's

1:48

kind of sick. Hey, I'm Nathan Drake. I would

1:50

just go around with... Does he raid tombs and stuff? No.

1:56

Do you think he can climb around real cool? real

2:00

cool he fucking grabs everything and it breaks that's

2:02

a good point he's actually not very cool with

2:04

the clumsiest man on earth yeah you might be

2:06

right stumbles into success all the mass murderer yes

2:09

psychopath well how

2:12

much of it is self-defense let's talk about

2:15

ludonarrative dissonance I legitimately have thought about getting

2:17

that phrase tattooed on me because I think

2:19

it's very I think it's like the most

2:21

quintessential gamer free to narrow well that's

2:24

not awful yeah really you know that means

2:26

Ethan let's go

2:28

I did at one

2:32

point I don't remember

2:34

I'm not gonna try it's basically when what

2:36

the play a character is doing is different

2:38

to what the story is telling you they're

2:41

like Nathan Drake is a wholesome man and

2:43

but he's also my wife yeah and then

2:45

he's like

2:48

all worried about it it's like you kill like 15

2:50

guests I'll kill a bunch of dude yeah why not

2:53

yeah and your brother got out of prison probably by

2:55

killing a bunch of dudes who showed up who even

2:57

is that guy where did he come from now you're

2:59

bonding over killing people yeah and

3:01

also pirates but they get to play Crash

3:03

Bandicoot so it's fine that was pretty sick that's

3:05

kind of actually even though his brain was miles

3:07

away and he was thinking about the treasures that

3:09

he'd never got and it's yeah I

3:12

do love the other end of junkie issue they

3:14

drink not a good person I don't know you might

3:16

be a bad guy but most

3:19

most main characters aren't really great man error

3:22

yeah most men aren't great welcome back

3:27

everybody to the brain podcast we have

3:29

Alana with us Alana Pierce Cheryl Lana's

3:31

urge hi Alana in Australian first

3:33

time on the podcast for sure definitely haven't

3:36

done this before yeah at all we definitely

3:38

didn't lose an episode where Alana was on

3:40

mm-hmm and it was I just assumed you

3:42

guys scrapped it because of all the bigoted

3:44

stuff you said you want to

3:46

edit around that is true episode

3:49

out of four hours of talking well

3:55

welcome back thank you for having me and for the first

3:57

time yes definitely with our time this set

3:59

is very cool it's more than where we

4:01

recorded last time which was your house yeah

4:03

on my couch

4:06

but it's not in the 70s it's not it's

4:08

I don't have a cool ass fridge like that

4:11

it's a good man

4:13

I had these accent lights that I forgot

4:15

to turn on hold on are you fucking

4:17

for I'll just wait they're connected to my

4:20

phone in here mm-hmm

4:22

what even is a phone yeah you're

4:24

ruining my emotion actually this is loot

4:26

or narrative distance well not quite you'll

4:29

get there though the gameplay

4:33

is you on your phone yeah story

4:35

is okay he made it work yeah

4:44

you know what was that really

4:46

good that's your little

4:49

robot yeah like British robot robot

4:51

little Australian robot whatever you

4:54

went to the UK how was it you have a good time yeah

4:56

we didn't have fish and chips at all though no

4:59

I was there why it was a bummer oh

5:01

we had it last time we

5:04

brought him first first Sunday roast

5:06

nice that light went already little

5:08

narrative dissonance it's a feature

5:13

yeah it's called Thanksgiving yeah

5:15

you're right they just do

5:17

one Thursday roast fucking big

5:19

Thursday roast big Thursday guys

5:21

Thursday it's like the shittiest

5:23

day of the week because that's

5:26

the day that they did it then the first

5:28

time they gave the thanks any of

5:30

you out there if Thursday is your favorite

5:32

day you need therapy wait why

5:34

that bad I like Thursday my favorite

5:37

day I think Tuesday is

5:39

the worst day it's a Tuesday today but I

5:41

don't know what I was gonna say Tuesday is

5:43

pretty shit yeah Tuesday Thursday what's the difference well

5:45

Thursday's right before Friday yeah yeah

5:48

but Tuesday's also right

5:50

before Friday not quite I would argue Monday

5:52

is the worst day no no no no

5:54

so here's the deal all right this is

5:56

gonna be a really excited why are you

5:59

about to say or a privilege

6:01

to take. As a

6:03

person who obviously works a normal nine

6:05

to five job, Monday through Friday. Yeah,

6:07

okay. Monday's the, wait,

6:10

no, Tuesday's the worst day, sorry. The

6:13

weekend is the weekend, as we know. Okay,

6:15

having fun, doing fun things. We should probably

6:17

cheat out a little bit, by the way.

6:21

Monday is like you're

6:23

getting ready, you're a little bit tired, but it's

6:25

like, okay, let's go and let's do this. But

6:27

you're still a little bit thriving off the weekend,

6:30

right, you're still that high. You might even still

6:32

be drunk. I

6:34

would say Monday is the most, is the closest

6:37

to depression a day can be. No, no, no,

6:39

I would argue that the end of Sunday is

6:41

more depressing than the beginning of Monday. No, that's

6:43

the Lord's Day, you can't say anything about that.

6:46

Well. Jesus will fuck you.

6:48

Yeah, I think that's what that happened

6:50

to him on Sundays. But Tuesday, you're

6:53

already in, and there's no getting

6:55

out. Maybe you're closer to the

6:57

weekend. You're never further from

6:59

the weekend than you are on a Monday. Or

7:02

a Sunday night. If that's still

7:04

the weekend, you're still in it.

7:07

Because you do the procrastination

7:09

thing, the revenge procrastination. You

7:11

heard about this? No. You look

7:14

for a long sleep, because you hate that your time

7:16

is being taken away from you. Oh,

7:18

I have seen that, yeah. So you revenge

7:20

procrastinate your time, so you go to bed

7:22

late, and then you wake up groggy in

7:24

a Monday. I probably do that. Yeah, I

7:26

almost definitely do that. I feel like as

7:28

a person who actually works nine to five

7:30

Monday to Friday, you goddamn YouTubers. Yeah. Believe

7:34

me, I know, I'm privileged. I am

7:36

the patriot. I really appreciate that. I

7:39

think Monday is shit, and there's

7:41

no post-weekend high. You just don't. He just

7:43

got hated. He loves

7:45

lasagna. A lot of the people that talk. But we

7:47

can't trust him anymore. Why? Chris

7:50

Pratt. That trailer was

7:52

insulting. This is rough.

7:56

God, does that guy work, though? You know? Man,

7:58

he does. What a career he's got. dude things.

8:01

I really miss when he was Andy

8:04

and we didn't know that he's kind

8:06

of an asshole. I would argue his

8:08

best role is the guy from LEGO

8:10

movie. Oh yeah!

8:13

I don't remember. I don't remember if he's the

8:15

main character in the LEGO movie. Oh he's the

8:17

LEGO movie guy. Yeah. He's the LEGO man. I

8:19

would argue that that's his best role. Does he

8:21

have a name in that movie? I don't remember.

8:23

Surely. Star Lord. Question mark?

8:26

I don't know. He does. I can't remember what

8:28

it is. Infinite money glitch you get into the

8:30

LEGO franchise but then you're also part of Marvel

8:33

so then you just keep going back to

8:35

replay that same role as the LEGO guy.

8:37

100%. That's what he's done. And

8:40

then Mario? My God. And now

8:42

Garfield. The Garboks are rolling in. Oh my

8:44

God. It was all

8:47

a part of Garfield the whole time. Yeah.

8:49

I can't imagine anybody... well Bill Murray did

8:51

Garfield as well I guess. Didn't Bill Murray

8:54

like do it as a joke and then he got

8:56

roped into doing more of them? Really?

8:59

Good joke Bill. I think so. What's the bit?

9:02

I think he accidentally became Garfield.

9:04

Watch me sign this contract. Jokes

9:09

on you. I don't remember. I heard

9:11

something about Bill Murray not

9:14

really realizing that he was signing up to

9:17

do Garfield for three movies or whatever it

9:19

was. Yeah that

9:21

sounds right because he does shit on it

9:23

a lot afterwards. He

9:25

makes fun of himself for doing Garfield. In Zombie

9:27

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a good movie. I like Zombieland. It's a fucking good

10:58

movie. Zombieland's fun. Did they have a second one? They

11:00

had a second one. Yeah, but I don't think many

11:03

people watched it. I don't think so. They kind of

11:05

pretended it wasn't there. The charm wore off. Yeah. Hmm.

11:07

And people were also getting kind of cold on Jesse

11:09

Eisenberg by then. That's right. That's

11:11

an interesting... guy?

11:13

Well, there's like three of

11:15

the same guy and Jesse Eisenberg is one of them.

11:17

It's like a bunch of them that just all sound and

11:20

look the same. Yeah. He's kind of in that group. But

11:22

I feel like people really turned on him when he played...

11:25

I might even be one of the four guys

11:27

I'm getting into confusing. Lex

11:29

Luthor? Yeah. And for

11:31

some reason people were like upset with him

11:33

personally for his portrayal of Lex Luthor. I feel

11:36

like when you hear Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor,

11:38

you know what that character is going to be

11:40

because Jesse Eisenberg plays himself all

11:43

the time. Yeah. We

11:45

have had this weird era sort of

11:47

recently of every DC villain just trying

11:49

to be the Joker. Like

11:51

just all of them. Yep. Like even the Riddler

11:54

and the Batman is basically just the Joker. That's

11:56

what my issue with the Riddler was. Like I

11:58

thought that it was... Good

12:00

and fun, and I like Paul Dano a lot, but

12:02

my favorite actor. He's one of my favorite actors also

12:05

He's one of I said okay. Well, he's your favorite

12:07

actor But

12:12

yeah, I was like you just can't be

12:14

in the Joker right now Yeah, especially in

12:17

the scene when he's like behind glass or

12:19

whatever Yeah,

12:22

it's like oh you just really

12:24

pulling I had no

12:26

bitches. Yeah, actually, you know

12:28

what I mean? Yeah, no rids. Yeah

12:33

Definitely no, I just can't help but feel like

12:35

he felt like a for can User

12:39

after that whole I feel like it was

12:41

intentional. Yeah, it kind of had to be

12:43

right He did feel like somebody unfortunate. I

12:45

mean he has a bunch of like followers

12:48

who yeah, yeah makes commit crimes. Mm-hmm You're

12:50

its manifestos. It's like yeah, you're

12:53

really cringe and awful. I think the

12:55

Eisenberg wasn't in this movie, right? Nope

12:59

Absolutely no I

13:04

Think it was also a little uncomfortable because

13:06

it just hit too close to home Like

13:08

that dude really do be existing like

13:11

yeah, you know the Batman. Yeah, but

13:13

I didn't like love it Like I

13:15

really expected to like it a lot

13:17

and then I came away from

13:19

it feeling like it was baby's first seven Mm-hmm,

13:21

you know It

13:26

took me a second to like realize It's

13:32

a fun it's a fun time It

13:34

I think had some

13:36

like really really good cinematography, but

13:39

it also was like Oh Yeah,

13:41

I like the atmosphere of it more than I like

13:44

the plot. Yep. I When

13:46

we left the movie, I was like I didn't like that So

13:49

many things to drum me why you know how

13:52

they find like the photos that clearly somebody

13:54

has been taking outside of the club Yeah,

13:56

it's the fucking guy who's murdering people or whatever.

13:58

It was that the riddle was doing They

14:00

don't just go... It's probably

14:02

taken from about up there. Maybe just

14:04

that building. Batman! I

14:08

also... I know

14:10

that it's the Riddler, and it's

14:12

riddles. But I didn't

14:14

like when Batman was solving the

14:16

riddles. When he's like, thumb

14:18

drive. And they're... Oh my god, it was

14:21

so cheat... And they're also all riddles that

14:23

my grandma likes. Mm-hmm. U-R-L.

14:28

It's so dumb! I

14:31

mean, I get it. It's supposed to be like, he's not a

14:33

detective yet. He's not the world's greatest detective. He's

14:36

called vengeance. He's not called Batman yet. Yep.

14:39

And I will defend the, you know how like, a

14:41

big spoiler, by the way, everybody, for the

14:43

Batman. Movie him out. Yeah, by

14:45

the possible limit. Like, the whole

14:48

crux of the film is that Batman, Super Detective,

14:50

doesn't know to use the carpet tool to lift

14:53

the carpet. And people had an

14:55

issue with that. But how would he not know how to do

14:57

it? But I think that was like, actually an interesting comment on

14:59

classism. How is the world's greatest

15:01

detective who's always been like, a rich kid ever

15:03

gonna know what a carpet tool is? Like, you

15:06

can pull up curtains. Yeah. I

15:08

thought that was the floor. That doesn't grow.

15:12

You don't just fall through if you pull

15:14

it up. Or are we gonna stand up?

15:16

We're gonna rip into space, my friend. Well,

15:18

I never thought about that. Yeah, I'm okay

15:20

with that part. I think also because I'm such a huge

15:22

fan of Robert Pattinson, I'm like,

15:25

you didn't really get to act in this movie. He's

15:27

very, very good. He has so much range and it's

15:29

like, I get why he is the way he is

15:31

in the movie, but it's like you're kind of one

15:33

note for the whole thing. Do you know that's a

15:35

lighthouse sticker pack? The

15:38

sentence I just said sounds very strange, but it's

15:40

my favorite fucking thing. I just saw the lighthouse

15:42

for the first time. Ooh, well, that's, yeah, that's

15:44

fitting. It's very funny. I want to watch it

15:46

again to understand a bit more. The

15:49

first watch. The two men go mad. The

15:52

first watch through is like really jarring. Yeah,

15:55

it was really funny. Guys

15:57

being dudes moving in the cart and jerking off. It's the

15:59

only. That I

16:01

have killing seagulls Look

16:04

at him. Hi. You just react to

16:06

people with like the seagull. Oh

16:08

god. Oh, you're talking about a digital

16:10

sticker But I could send you little You're

16:17

not allowed use that sticker pack unless you're talking

16:19

an old tiny pirate voice Like

16:24

you have to be yelling hark at people

16:26

and Poseidon drown ye and you're fun to

16:28

be lobster Which is how I text obviously

16:30

we were talking about this right after Can

16:35

you say you're fond of me lobster

16:37

as an Australian you're fond

16:39

of me lobster Super

16:43

Australian after like get into it you're fond of me

16:45

lob stuff. Yeah, we're okay It's not

16:47

to segue because you were about to say something.

16:49

But what is the most Australian accent like

16:52

the thickest Even Australians

16:54

can't understand them. My dad's

16:56

got a pretty thick Australian accent. It's Bogan

16:59

is the word we use And

17:01

you can hear it just like rednecks,

17:03

right pretty much. Yeah Region

17:06

it's hot. They're kind of everywhere. But realistically, it's

17:09

my region. I'm from Queensland, which is the

17:11

Florida of Australia And

17:13

it's pretty northern I guess and they buy these be

17:15

like this You know really all the signs they just talk

17:18

them as a little one time. I just have a lot of work Have

17:20

you seen that old Australian guy that like light

17:22

shit on fire in his heart? Fuck

17:27

a fire in the freezer My

17:35

people are culture. Yeah, yeah, very

17:37

good. He looks He's

17:40

like fire in his freezer I'll

17:44

show you I don't know. Okay fucking

17:46

fire and fucking freeze. Anyway, yeah

17:50

I cut you off and now you're not gonna be able to remember what you were

17:52

talking about Oh

17:54

lighthouse we were talking about the lighthouse. Yeah,

17:56

we were talking about when watch

17:58

it how much fun that made have been for

18:00

the two of them because I feel like it

18:02

just goes back to like acting roots. Yeah. Where

18:05

it's all very like Shakespearean stuff. Yeah. To

18:08

be said. Yeah. They just have

18:10

to lose their minds together. A lot of soliloquies. Mm-hmm. Little

18:13

bit gay. Little bit gay. A lot of farts.

18:16

Yeah. So many fucking farts. Way

18:18

more than I thought. Yeah, a lot of dudes in that

18:20

film. For the first time that I saw it, I was

18:22

like, wait, the first fart that I heard, I was like,

18:24

is that real? A fart. That's

18:26

funny. Quite a bit, yeah. True

18:28

House. True House. Nice, dude.

18:32

Yeah, it's a very, very weird, very

18:35

fun movie. What's your favorite movie? I'm

18:40

shocked that you don't have an answer locked. I think

18:42

my favorite movie is Arrival. Ooh,

18:44

I've got tattooed right here. I did

18:46

know that. Can't show it. Locked

18:49

in. Yeah, liar. Locked in. Liar.

18:52

Sure, you do. Do like Arrival. It's hard

18:54

though because I don't

18:57

know. I

18:59

think the Godfather is fantastic. Love

19:01

Spydervos. But you realize you're not

19:03

a teenage boy, so you can't love the

19:05

Godfather. I

19:08

just can't talk about it. Everybody

19:10

likes that movie. You can't introduce about it. Freshman

19:12

in film school. You said the word popular and

19:14

everyone's like, lies on show. I

19:18

really like the movie Super 8. We

19:22

had one. I didn't like that one as

19:24

much. Is that in the Cloverfield universe?

19:26

No. 10 Cloverfield Lane. Great

19:29

film. That's my favorite movie. That's a very

19:31

good movie. I really like that movie a

19:33

lot. No, Super 8 is like basically stranger

19:36

things in

19:38

film. Yeah, it's like a more teenage-y ET.

19:40

Yeah. Which I've never seen. You've

19:43

never seen ET? No. It's great.

19:45

Is it good? Yeah. It's

19:48

really good. I only know about ET's phone

19:50

home and like something about a bike.

19:52

Let me tell you what I think that movie's about. That's

19:56

a great idea for a

19:58

podcast. movies you've

20:00

never seen before I saw it John Wick I assumed based on

20:02

the things

20:05

I had heard that it was like a buddy

20:08

cop with a guy and his dog and

20:10

they're literally cops and they like self-crime because

20:13

I guess not that far off

20:16

um okay et fun home an

20:19

alien shows up at this kid's school and rides

20:22

a bike home with him

20:24

I like that this is a lot of pierces

20:26

et phone home he gets home he phones

20:35

home to ask if you can stay over for the

20:37

night yeah they ride a bike back to

20:40

the kids house school I think maybe

20:43

but it as at nighttime they leave school and

20:48

he needs to call his parents

20:52

to let them know that he's good friends with the

20:54

kid well I can say

20:56

you could not be further yeah I mean first

20:59

of all they are

21:02

when they're riding the bike they're riding

21:04

to get away from the house yeah

21:06

they're getting away from the police are after him oh

21:09

the cops are off to et yeah oh

21:11

alien is an extraterrestrial how's that

21:13

a crime well you know hey

21:15

not Americans

21:20

technically I'm an alien yeah

21:23

and then et goes like watch this shit

21:25

hmm finger glows bike flies there do you

21:27

know about the drunk scene in that movie

21:29

no there is a scene where et gets

21:31

drunk and it freaked me out you could

21:33

be lying and he has a very fucked

21:35

up face in that movie yeah I'm not

21:37

lying there's a part where

21:39

I like it okay is it

21:42

a kid's maybe yeah I

21:44

think it was max scoville that told me this

21:46

this might be wrong well I don't want

21:48

to say this now cuz you haven't seen

21:50

the movie do you care

21:52

about et spoilers should I mean well

21:54

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21:56

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23:16

ET doesn't die in the movie. Okay.

23:19

But he does die in the movie. Okay.

23:22

But he comes back to life. That's a Jesus allegory. Okay.

23:25

Three days later is more like three minutes. Yeah. Okay.

23:29

And so the kid, what's his name? Henry

23:32

Thomas. Henry Thomas, yeah. He is really distraught

23:35

because his new friend ET dies in front

23:37

of him. And I think it was Max

23:39

Scoville that told me that a

23:41

friend of his made a cut of the film where

23:43

it just cuts to the credits after ET dies, which

23:46

is really funny. I recently

23:48

watched, it was one of

23:50

the Mortal Kombat movies. I don't even know which

23:53

one. But my friend upscaled it with

23:55

AI so that it was 120 frames a second. Fuck

23:58

yeah. insane

24:01

because every effect has to then like have

24:03

frames added so anytime is any kind of

24:05

whitening like AI

24:11

yeah, it's fucking wild. I hope that it's

24:14

the second Mortal Kombat movie I think it

24:16

might might have been I haven't seen a

24:18

Mortal Kombat movie It's up for the most

24:20

recent one that came out like a couple

24:22

of years ago We came over to my

24:24

house and we didn't watch the Wanda has

24:26

the eponymous song mm-hmm I wasn't even made

24:28

for the game haven't seen that I also

24:30

haven't seen any of the ipman movies Which I

24:32

really want to see the one man is fine

24:34

if you haven't seen I'm sorry what it's man.

24:36

I'm putting him down Donnie Yen I'm

24:39

one with the force the force it with me

24:41

one guy. Yeah, he's also he's like

24:44

John wick for as well Yeah, he has

24:46

his own franchise like on back or like

24:48

the Jet Li movies or something like that.

24:50

Oh is he blind in real life? No Doesn't

24:53

he play a blind guy in John wick? Oh wow

24:56

that's weird He's really still in there. I wish you'd cancel

24:58

it Give me a second I'm

25:01

firing up the audience. Yeah, you can't do that

25:04

get out of here I don't think it's

25:06

that crazy that you haven't seen eat man

25:08

I it's not really how they're going around

25:10

being like you haven't seen a plan well

25:12

Justin Tracy does He gets

25:14

very upset that I haven't seen that movie. He likes actually

25:16

have you seen the raid no Oh,

25:19

you haven't seen the raid that one is about

25:21

it. I've never even heard of that movie really

25:23

what is it from? Oh my god, have you

25:25

seen the dread movie right then you were just

25:27

read with current urban Those

25:34

movies are so you want to watch the

25:36

marbles recently I again

25:40

My friend asked me to go and you didn't

25:42

just say no, that's what's the raid instead. No

25:46

Didn't occur. I do have a policy where anytime anybody

25:48

asked me to see a movie. I will say yes

25:50

Yeah 100% of the time you

25:52

want to go whatever the fuck you want because it you get

25:54

to be social But you don't have to speak which

25:57

I would like to say

26:00

That the worst activity for a first date

26:02

is going to see a movie. Don't do

26:04

it. I don't know why that's like a

26:06

stereotypical like, It's first date, let's go see a

26:08

movie. That's a horrible first date. Cause you just go and

26:10

kiss for the whole thing. Exactly, cause you wanna touch in

26:12

the dark. That's why you feel each other up. Yeah. In

26:14

the back seats, that's the whole point. Yeah. I guess... But...

26:17

You were just sitting there like, What is this

26:19

movie? Don't talk to me bitch! This movie's awesome, did you see

26:21

it? Take her out! Take her out! I'm

26:24

watching. But you can't talk at all. You just

26:26

gotta sit there and then after. What kids talk

26:28

on a first date? I'm...

26:30

I guess... I'm talking... Like if you're a

26:32

teenager, then yeah, they just wanna kiss. I

26:34

was just... All I wanted to do was

26:36

kiss. Yeah. No. Yeah, you're right. But even...

26:38

I wanna see the holiday. Even as an

26:40

adult, I have... I

26:43

have been asked to go and see a movie. Yeah,

26:45

and I was like, For an adult, yeah, it's a bad first date.

26:48

I don't wanna do that at all. Minigolf. Always

26:50

Minigolf. Destruction Dope. Minigolf is pretty good. Yeah. Minigolf's a

26:52

good one. Destruction Dope? Arcade kind of thing is pretty

26:54

good. Okay, it's good. I think a shared activity. Minigolf's

26:56

a good one, because it's a very body language-centric kind

26:59

of activity. True. And it's also... Everyone's being silly, so

27:01

you kind of get outside your comfort zone a little

27:03

bit. Yeah, but you also have something to talk about.

27:06

Yeah. You know, I think Den is also

27:08

a bad idea. I think karaoke is a

27:10

terrible idea. Karaoke is not a... That's interesting.

27:12

That's a... That's a high bar to get

27:14

over. Really bold first date. Wow, you gotta

27:16

be confident. Take people to karaoke. Or

27:18

you're both just so silly that... Den, it's an amazing

27:20

first date. Yeah. But I feel like that's... No

27:23

one... Yeah, it's clear or 100. You both

27:25

have to be really confident to offer

27:28

that up and to accept that. Yeah, I think

27:30

the only people that offer karaoke as a first

27:32

date are people who are incredible at singing. And

27:35

then the other person's like... Just sitting there. But

27:37

that's insufferable. So karaoke is really fun

27:39

unless somebody tries too hard. And then

27:41

it becomes awful. Yeah, and then they get

27:43

up and they cue like five songs back to back. And

27:45

I'm like, I don't want to go

27:47

now. I would just leave. I'm not... I love karaoke.

27:49

I'm okay at singing, but I'm not good enough to

27:51

cue five songs in a row. People who are too

27:54

good at singing karaoke shouldn't go. You know what? I

27:56

don't think karaoke should be about singing. I

27:59

think karaoke should... be about vibes screaming and

28:01

drinking 100% 100% yeah that's how you put on

28:03

like sweet

28:06

you don't put on like

28:08

truly the white man's anthem

28:10

I have been to karaoke

28:13

a few times in like the last year and

28:15

everyone keeps putting on the Hamilton songs and

28:18

that one that's like six minutes long I'm like you

28:21

can't be done you've never been to karaoke before

28:23

no don't put on a song that's over three

28:27

minutes yeah yeah it's

28:30

just like what if I don't know the

28:32

length of the song well I

28:34

mean cancel well I

28:37

think should you be doing a song you don't know the length of yeah

28:39

good point my go-to is chop suey

28:41

by system of a down I get a

28:43

really good one absolute banger a karaoke that's

28:45

a really good one to start with because

28:47

then everyone loses their voice immediately and then no

28:49

one's good yeah even if you are I

28:51

also think really any Britney Spears goes down

28:53

well yeah I get good Britney mr. bright

28:55

side by the killer bright sides really good

28:57

surprisingly hard to sing yeah but

28:59

I don't know higher than you would think yeah but

29:01

everyone sings it yeah true call me

29:04

maybe collie reject yeah this pretty I really

29:06

like tribute but tenacious do you have

29:08

a fun one good one yeah then you get a

29:10

duo yep I also I really

29:12

like don't want to miss

29:14

a thing by Aerosmith very good very good we

29:16

should go to karaoke we should you guys I

29:19

love karaoke it's

29:22

very good time I went to

29:25

karaoke recently and it was 10

29:28

people 12 people something like that right and

29:30

they were like hey we have

29:32

like a package and it was Saturday night and

29:34

so they were like we have an alcohol package

29:36

that you have to buy with the room yeah

29:38

and we're like okay cool did you go to

29:41

the place in Korea town called Farah no

29:43

okay because they but I have been there

29:45

yeah I think did we all

29:47

go there together maybe maybe I don't know

29:50

this was a different place but they were like and

29:53

when they said this we were all like yeah that sounds

29:55

good and then when they brought it out we were like

29:57

this is way too much alcohol they were like we'll do

29:59

10 beers and 10 bottles of soju

30:01

and we're like yeah that sounds good and

30:04

then they brought it all out and the 10 beers was

30:06

like that's good but then the 10 full

30:09

bottles of soju is a lot

30:11

of alcohol. What percentage is soju?

30:14

It's not super high I think it's like

30:16

eight something like that yeah

30:18

that's still a lot for I don't really get drunk

30:20

off soju. No I like the flavor. It's okay I

30:22

can drink that all day and they'll be fine. Sort

30:24

of the point right like it's more of a... yeah.

30:27

A paster? Yeah. Less of a shotter? I mean

30:30

you do shot it but I don't fucking know.

30:32

Shooter. Shooter. Shooter might.

30:34

Shooter might. Blah-dee-yo. I

30:36

really like every time that you see

30:39

Spencer because you say Spencer. Spencer! Spencer!

30:42

Benjar! Benjar. Benjar

30:44

and Benjar. I think I was that

30:47

guy. Benjar? Huge cheese for Benjar. His

30:49

physical therapist because he's got a bad

30:51

leg was too fucking far

30:53

away and so it was really hard to

30:55

get there and so I've been effectively harassing

30:58

this company who's closer to me to take

31:00

him for physical therapy and they finally

31:02

today said yes and I've genuinely been

31:04

like please please help my dog please

31:06

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31:08

to get huge news huge for Banjo.

31:10

Shout out Banjo. He doesn't even know

31:13

how happy he's going to be. Also

31:15

I was in Australia until Sunday I'm

31:17

very jet lagged and oh

31:19

you were just in Australia? Sure was and

31:21

when I walked in the door he's the

31:23

most excited I've ever seen any animal ever.

31:25

He's like kitty toe dancing. It's very cute.

31:27

How long were you in Australia for? Ten

31:30

days not very long. But enough to be

31:32

fucking horribly jet lagged? I didn't

31:35

sleep on the whole flight back 13

31:37

hours and so because I got on

31:40

the plane at like 12

31:42

45 Australian time which I had adjusted to trying

31:44

to get to sleep was insane so when I

31:46

landed it was what like 2 a.m. or something?

31:49

Yeah. So I was just awake. I'm

31:51

a mess. This week's going terribly for me.

31:53

Where's? If it's any consolation you're

31:55

hiding it very well. Yeah you don't seem

31:57

jet lagged. It's a ruse but thank you. So

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33:45

Can you fly into Brisbane yeah like a

33:47

direct no cool, which is great. Yeah, nice.

33:50

Yeah, but I'm Falling apart. Did you

33:52

go to the beach? I went to

33:54

the beach almost every day. Yeah. Hell yeah

33:56

sick They also had there's such good tropical

33:58

storms where I'm from So

34:01

one of the nights we had this insane tropical storm that was

34:03

at like maybe 2 a.m. And the lightning's lighting up my whole

34:05

room, and I was like I need to stay awake This is

34:07

so sick, and then I kept falling back asleep, and I wake

34:09

up again. It's so cool I

34:12

miss it all the time You don't have

34:15

tropical you wouldn't really write half thunderstorms In

34:18

Brighton we do yeah nice yeah, we had like we

34:20

had a really crazy one last year and this year

34:23

Where it's that thing where it's just like? Constant okay,

34:25

there's no like for lightning. It's all just

34:27

in the clouds. Yeah, I miss

34:29

that a lot We like don't really get thunderstorms

34:31

here at all. No you remember the Bahamas. We

34:34

were all just sitting on the balcony being like Also

34:37

Aaron was somehow really good at guessing exactly when

34:39

they would happen yeah You like now and

34:41

then it would come every time wow yeah, he's

34:43

married to a witch Magic

34:46

be careful what you say Not

34:49

in a durability way. No. I like pop a

34:51

hugely positive way. We love that Susie's a witch

34:53

You feel very positively about that that

34:55

was that was very fun getting a few

34:57

thunderstorms. It was awesome It's like almost every

34:59

night. Yeah The place is

35:01

great except for the food the food in

35:03

the Bahamas was not great nope This

35:06

is the Bahamas right after creative clash. It's

35:08

so much fun. It's great I think my

35:10

favorite memory is when you and I just went and

35:12

swam in the ocean and Because

35:15

everyone's on vacation. It was like we have no

35:17

idea what time it is We don't know how

35:19

long we've been in here, but it doesn't matter

35:21

cuz I get no one's doing anything We're hanging

35:24

on the thing in the swims sick, and we

35:26

went on jet skis, and they're really bad Yeah,

35:30

the direction I guess on the way out

35:33

was terrible like Yeah

35:37

suspension One

35:39

time I had a rock there, too I hit like

35:42

the on like a slight bit of a rock next

35:44

to this like island that we just get around when

35:46

we're just Yeah, and

35:48

I like went like a face

35:50

and smacked my neck into the

35:52

front bar Yeah,

35:58

it was a great time really hot Yeah, I've

36:00

never been on a jet ski, but all the footage

36:02

like It's like

36:04

one of the worst things you could do like

36:06

super super dangerous. Yeah, great if you're going laterally

36:08

I guess You

36:11

can also get the the

36:14

Thing of water up your ass. Have you ever

36:16

heard about this? Yeah,

36:19

this girl had uh, she

36:21

fell off a jet ski and it went

36:24

like directly up her ass And she had

36:26

internal bleeding from the water colonoscopy. Yeah, it's

36:28

crazy It's free though

36:30

free Yeah, well, you know in America and

36:32

this economy I mean I'm

36:35

trying to get one of those be the move Would

36:37

be the move. I tried to cancel my health insurance today.

36:39

Let me tell you they do not make that easy in

36:42

this country They don't make it easy to get

36:44

it either That part they'll

36:46

take your money. They just want to help you Um,

36:49

and yeah, i'm trying to cancel my health insurance And i've been

36:51

looking for like two hours and i've resigned myself to the fact

36:53

that I cannot do it You have to call them and

36:56

i'm like, oh cool It's gonna take me five hours and

36:58

they're gonna be like, are you sure and i'm like, please

37:00

you're so shit That's like your gym membership 100% It's

37:03

so why is it hard to cancel a gym membership?

37:05

I had to write a letter to gold's gym to

37:07

cancel it Yeah, like I had to be like

37:09

I would no longer like your services And they

37:11

just sign it and fucking mail it in because it's because

37:14

you guys chose to live here. I went to a gym

37:16

You're not wrong. You're not even from here. No, you're not

37:18

wrong. It's a good point I went to a gym for

37:20

a bit that for some reason they would send to invoices

37:23

Uh, and so I tried to cancel my membership.

37:25

We're doing freelance work This

37:28

is weird um Because

37:31

I tried to cancel my membership and I tried to call

37:33

and they're like, oh, yeah Let me put

37:35

you on hold and then that lasted forever And

37:37

then I tried to do it on the website and there's nowhere to

37:39

do it And so then I was like, I

37:41

guess I can just stop paying the invoices That's

37:43

what i've done with my insurance is I just got rid of

37:46

my auto pay like catch me now, bitch Yeah,

37:48

but thank you care to expire Well now

37:50

the problem with it because america is that

37:52

what if it becomes like a credit issue

37:54

it will And then credit it will be

37:56

like you haven't been paying your bills. It's like I don't want to pay these

37:59

bills I was about to say that that with health insurance,

38:02

just not paying because then the debt collector will

38:04

come. Yep, it's super fun. So I have canceled

38:06

it, but I am also going to call them

38:08

and be like, please, I just need you out

38:10

of my life right now. It's

38:13

like an abusive ex, it's like, please leave.

38:15

I don't see you, oh man. And even when

38:18

I do pay, they never see me. It

38:20

takes four weeks to get an appointment. It's

38:22

awful. Oh. And then when

38:25

you have health insurance and you go and

38:27

you say, I have health insurance, you

38:30

still have to pay so much money. And they say, not

38:32

the right kind. Go somewhere

38:34

else, you punk. What is

38:36

that about? It's just fucking

38:39

stupid. I have free health care, right?

38:41

Oh, God. I don't know. I'll tell you, it has free

38:43

health care. Yeah, whenever I go home, I go to the

38:46

dentist. I was about to ask

38:48

if dental is included in that health care. Not?

38:51

In England, it's like certain things. Yeah, I

38:53

think you can get covered. But like, filling

38:55

in crowns, all that shit, no. Yeah. I

38:58

mean, you got bad teeth too. Dontoriously.

39:01

Huh. Damn. Which

39:03

is really bizarre. I don't know why. Neither.

39:05

Dental work is not... Actually,

39:07

in Ireland, it was pretty bad growing up. I

39:10

had people like, well, I think you have a cavity

39:12

and there was still the entire tooth. Just kidding. Do

39:15

you guys have braces? Yeah. I

39:17

still have them. I have visalign. Visalign. You

39:19

still have braces? I still have, I permanently have balls

39:22

glued to the back. Oh yeah, Evelyn has

39:24

that bar. I need to have, no, my orthodontist said,

39:26

we're gonna put a bar in after we take out

39:28

your thing. And I went, okay, cool. And then they

39:30

didn't, and I was a child and I didn't know

39:33

any better. I feel very positively about the balls. Yeah.

39:35

Yeah, I think they're trying not to do them now

39:37

because like, stuff gets caught in them. It's really hard

39:39

to floss. Yeah. Really hard

39:41

to floss. I've been thinking about doing Invisalign

39:44

because really the guy down here. I think

39:46

he's cute. See, sometimes

39:48

I'm like, I kind of like that little guy. I

39:50

think he's a little cutie. You know, little character. You

39:52

should keep him. Yeah. Oh, give him a name. Yeah,

39:55

this tooth now is all completely fake. You

39:58

have a whole fake tooth? It's just a root condition. and

40:00

the whole thing is a crown you got good canines

40:03

never know something you got can

40:05

I got canines for rare I

40:08

didn't like that I don't know if

40:10

you're gonna don't worry about it they're

40:13

ready to find me ready to graze file those babies

40:20

yeah sharp yeah what are

40:22

you okay nance like you're

40:27

a herbivore for sure yeah you've

40:29

eaten some lettuce you've been eating

40:31

some grass yeah

40:35

fish be munching yeah

40:37

you should keep you

40:40

little guy that's all I'm trying to say keep

40:42

my little my little friend yeah yeah I mean

40:44

if it's not like damaging to your mouth you're

40:46

not insecure about it I don't

40:48

think there's any voice just been like oh man

40:51

I feel bad sometimes when I'm

40:53

like man my parents paid so

40:55

much to make my teeth straight I

40:58

didn't care but you didn't care of the

41:00

dentist you didn't put the bar in I

41:02

didn't care did you have a retainer because

41:04

I had a retainer and I didn't wear

41:06

that's me with this line I did it

41:08

and then my teeth got straighter and then

41:11

I stopped wearing the retainer at night because

41:13

it would give me like awful like jaw

41:15

pain and I also have a

41:17

tooth this front one they like cross each other and I

41:20

got it and it straightened out and then it would kind of

41:22

like wiggle a little bit hmm and I told them that and

41:24

they're like no your tooth was just in this position for so

41:27

long that when it goes forward the bone

41:29

kind of needs to reform behind it and keep it in

41:31

place but it never did well you

41:33

guys seen the trend that's been

41:35

going around with oil pulling we

41:38

what told me what oil pulling was but

41:40

it's basically it's basically just coconut oil and

41:42

maybe some other things and you just like

41:45

oil it's like coconut paste where you put

41:47

it in your mouth why just

41:49

like swish around in it like it protects

41:52

your gums I guess and you like you

41:54

like squelch it through your teeth gap yeah

41:56

and it like gets everything like out well

42:00

I mean it makes everything like loose in

42:02

there. Just floss and mouthwash. And then it

42:04

makes your teeth whiter. Does it actually work?

42:06

I don't know, it seems like it does.

42:08

I feel like the coconut oil industry be

42:10

popping off. Like I feel like everything, someone's

42:12

like coconut oil. People really sell it for

42:14

literally everything. Yeah. I would like

42:16

to get to the bottom of... This is probably

42:19

a scam of some kind. Coconut. Coconut? Don't

42:21

even exist. I've never seen one. Me neither. Have you ever

42:23

seen a coconut oil? Not me.

42:25

Made out. How do you drill for coconut oil?

42:27

Exactly. It doesn't make sense. Where are they? Garbage.

42:31

We don't know. We have no

42:33

idea. It's not real. Whole fake industry. Hmm.

42:35

I wonder how hard it is to extract

42:37

the oil from a coconut. You

42:40

think they like milk it? Well, that's

42:42

coconut milk. Coconut oil. What the fuck

42:44

is coconut oil? They love so much.

42:46

They have milk, they have coconut water,

42:48

they have oil, they have

42:50

pulp, flesh, bark. Well, I feel like

42:52

they're the same things. Coconut milk and oil. And they're

42:55

like the coconut milk and the coconut water and the

42:57

coconut pulp are all really just... Yeah, I think it's

42:59

just a consistency thing. Different concentrates of the same thing.

43:01

A little viscosity. Yeah. Uh-huh. Don't like that word. I

43:03

don't like the flavor of coconut. No, it's terrible. I

43:05

don't like it. Not a fan either. I think it

43:07

really is. You don't like bounty bars? You

43:10

guys have bounty bars, right? Yeah. Not

43:12

a fan. You don't have bounty bars. Maybe, but...

43:14

It's just like a slab of coconut. Not

43:17

a fan. Wrapped in chocolate. I also really

43:19

hate the taste of chocolate and mango together.

43:22

I'm not a big mango guy. Unless it's just

43:24

pure mango on a bone. I like mango. I'm

43:26

okay with mango. I had mango sticky rice the

43:28

other day. That's good shit. Fucking shit. Yeah, that's

43:30

good stuff. I don't want mango like... Mango and

43:33

peach flavored like yogurts and drinks. I hate... Yeah.

43:35

I think because I used to have yogurt in

43:37

Ireland called petitfalou. And I would

43:39

eat all those. Oh, I got a petitfalou! Petitfalou!

43:42

Oh, that's petitfalou! I

43:45

like petitfalou! Even though

43:47

it's French, we'll fucking pronounce it differently.

43:49

Oh, wait. It's like petit... Petitfalou. Petitfalou.

43:52

Um... We'd have that and I ate

43:55

too many like peach flavored ones. Now I hate peach. It's

43:58

like whatever you get drunk off for the... time

44:00

you can't drink again yep vodka for me if

44:02

I have I haven't done it in a

44:04

long time but I used to if

44:06

I had to shout a vodka I would immediately

44:08

throw I mean it is disgusting yeah it is

44:10

does anybody like potatoes yeah which

44:13

how again we're talking about how you get coconut how

44:15

the fuck do you get fuck out of a potato

44:17

does anybody figure any of this shit out have

44:19

you seen that show I think it's literally called

44:21

how things are made because in UK

44:24

I how it's made how it's made I

44:26

recently love it it's so good it's so

44:28

awesome and I like you think that you don't

44:30

care all of it's interesting

44:32

yeah I love seeing how pencils are

44:34

made it's so sweet and I really

44:36

like the guy's voice even though it's

44:38

super boring and monotone but he's like

44:41

then the shit goes in the ass

44:43

and he's the original daily dose of

44:45

internet yeah you're really yeah have you

44:47

seen Charlie's friends do they're like the

44:50

Djibouti dubs versions of those videos no

44:53

that's like and then the pencils come out

44:55

one by one but luckily there's not enough

44:57

pencils to destroy and like all the pencils

44:59

rise up and it's like they're coming but

45:02

he does a really good job

45:04

of like it sounds the same here that he

45:06

can do that monotone voice but he like throws

45:08

in like goofy shit all the time very good

45:10

what happened to Djibouti dubs they

45:12

still make stuff they might stream

45:15

I'm not sure I remember

45:17

thinking that last year and I look them up and

45:19

I can't remember the go-to pipeline yeah

45:22

I remember Djibouti dubs

45:24

Djibouti dubs did the

45:27

sticky thing right yeah

45:30

it makes me sort

45:32

of missed like since I moved to the

45:34

US I've never had TV I've only ever

45:37

had my favorite thing about being in a

45:39

hotel QVC is watching is watching shitty TV

45:41

in the Bahamas there was this thing that

45:43

will come on at like 10 p.m. every

45:45

night that would be a memorial of all

45:47

the people in the Bahamas that had died

45:50

or what like were you watching

45:52

was incredible hours I think

45:54

it was me and Leighton maybe up

45:56

or it would be like community events

45:59

so you just Find out about like

46:01

people were clearly paying like five cents to

46:03

advertise like these little community events Town

46:06

hall into people dying it

46:08

was it was excellent content. I don't remember that

46:10

Yeah, you can't get that on that like real

46:12

small town. It was very nice That's

46:14

very cool. We were doing Ireland you'd like turn

46:16

6 p.m. Driving home and my mother would be

46:18

like obituaries turn them on in the radio It's

46:24

like Ron and the last Harry Potter movie

46:26

just listening for his family yeah And

46:29

then Irish people would be like that's

46:31

awful. It's not shocking This

46:35

blesser Into

46:38

the world I Would

46:41

like to go to Ireland someday. It just

46:43

seems like it should all go yeah, just

46:45

everyone we know everyone I'm gonna make you

46:47

too many people but a big old party

46:49

bus hmm. Mm-hmm. Just drive

46:51

on over the ocean Yeah, but it

46:53

seems like it always rains is it always I mean

46:56

if you've been to England It was

46:58

sunny the whole time. I was there well and not I've been

47:00

lied to I Have

47:03

I been gaslit this whole time probably

47:05

is really small and because England's really

47:07

long So some of the middle doesn't

47:09

really get as much but Ireland is like I grew up

47:11

in the middle So it's like ocean everywhere hmm all

47:14

around it like almost the same distance everywhere So it's like

47:16

the same kind of weather converging in the middle all the

47:18

time that makes sense Which is a lot of cloud and

47:20

rain yeah, which I guess it's okay

47:23

sometimes Maritz yeah

47:25

a lot of sheep a lot of video

47:27

games just cows and sheep everywhere I'm not

47:29

hills rolling hills a bunch of fucking bastards

47:31

everywhere Don't you

47:33

gobshines Wow really went for him.

47:36

Yeah that whole country damn

47:38

all right fuck. I mean there's There's

47:41

the stereotype of like Irish people drinking, but

47:44

I mean true Like

47:46

what I like that one's true. What else you

47:49

gonna do though that that is why yeah,

47:51

they drink like a lot That's

47:53

all that's the same with any small town It's

47:55

like all people can do is just go to

47:57

the point they all do drugs. I mean that's

47:59

the oldest in potentially the world

48:01

is in Ireland Sean's bar

48:03

really from the year 900 that's

48:07

cool it's older than most countries and it

48:09

still functions as a pub Wow obviously like

48:11

the outside and everything looks different but they

48:13

still have like sawdust on the floors and

48:16

do a mighty pint again let's go

48:18

go to

48:21

Sean's bar in Athlon right in the River

48:23

Shannon you'd get a free drink there absolutely

48:26

not I

48:29

wouldn't want a free drink there no like

48:31

it's an establishment you know support your local

48:33

don't know in a disrespected but maybe just one free

48:35

drink because you have the name of the guy on

48:37

the side I would like to show my

48:40

ID like come on it's

48:48

all this Saoirse Saoirse and

48:50

Eve and Maeve Siobhan Siobhan I

48:52

like the name Siobhan me too

48:54

I really like a good-ass name

48:58

what's your least favorite name I honestly

49:01

don't care if I don't like Keegan

49:04

yeah is not great I don't like

49:07

any of those like southern

49:10

modern name like Brindley or

49:12

hmm Branthenie

49:15

I don't like shithead

49:20

college dude names like Bryce and Chad

49:22

my name is Blaine Blaine he is

49:27

from Texas Blaine his name is

49:29

Lacey which I also feel is very Texan yeah

49:32

goddamn Blaine that's his

49:34

name was it yesterday you were doing

49:37

the dialogue and

49:43

it was so spot-on again that would

49:45

be wonderful well we gotta get out

49:47

of here Jose said that we got

49:49

to get on up and got to

49:51

go to Tahiti yeah it's like Dutch

49:54

I've just been saying that for a while I don't

49:56

know what he was up to well Dutch says a

49:58

lot of things Nothing nothing.

50:00

They're just rambling until you get to the

50:02

town. It's like yeah, I think good is

50:05

the best interest for us Good,

50:08

I don't even know if Australia's real.

50:10

He's not a liar Fucking

50:17

she breaks me I'm

50:20

done Me the worst is when you're riding on

50:22

the horse and the songs playing and it's like

50:24

a point where you realize that author is Gonna

50:26

die and you're like am I writing him to

50:29

his death now? Can I cut her

50:31

out? I don't want her to die that I

50:33

just felt so responsible for damn you Dutch. How

50:35

about that GTA 6? Oh That's

50:39

the video games coming out. I'm very

50:41

excited easily going to be the biggest

50:43

video game launch ever. Yep Yep, I

50:46

think it already the trailer already has

50:48

more views Then it was like Zelda

50:50

and cyberpunk and GTA 4 combined

50:53

or fight. It was a yesterday That it

50:55

was supposed to be this morning and interrupt

50:57

yesterday. Yeah, I'm sad for all the people

50:59

waiting for the premiere. Yeah It's

51:02

still there now really Blow. Yeah,

51:05

I used to I Feel

51:07

differently like when I worked at IGN. I

51:10

was like slightly more Well,

51:12

if I have the information then the information

51:14

should be reported And

51:16

I don't feel that way at all. I get why they

51:18

do it But I'm like and you're just really not thinking

51:20

about all the people that worked on this fucking thing I

51:22

don't even think you're thinking about the audience because we all

51:24

get a cooler moment if we're all in the premiere watching

51:26

it at the Same time and then the whole reaction at

51:28

the same time and then yeah Like I because I didn't

51:30

know that it leaked until a friend who works at Rockstar

51:32

texted me and was like the trailers up And I was

51:34

like, oh my god. I'm so sorry. I had to do

51:36

that. But like we lose the fucking cool Apple simultaneous

51:39

reveal as well The

51:42

random leaks like that. I'm like

51:44

because there's no real finger to point at

51:46

anybody I'm sure Rockstar know who did it but

51:48

at the same time it's like journalists who have

51:50

the information It's like just fucking

51:52

sit on it. I don't know why I mean

51:54

here's that you got your story out like a

51:57

day early Yeah, the reason why is because they

51:59

get used Like that is why, but

52:01

there's just no ethical reason to do it. And

52:04

the thing about, especially like the early GTA leagues, which

52:06

I didn't watch any of, and I know it was

52:08

early gameplay that leaked for GTA six. Why

52:11

on earth would anyone report on that when you're

52:13

just giving audiences something they don't even understand most

52:16

of the time? Like they're so critical of it

52:18

because they don't know what games look like in

52:20

development. Yeah. And then they finally get to see

52:22

what they look like in development. They're like, this

52:24

looks like fucking ass. This looks like ass until

52:26

like two months before it comes out. Yeah, there's

52:28

no textures on anything. Like just like GTA four.

52:30

And people did do that. There was a guy

52:32

who went like kind of viral for

52:34

saying that art is the first thing that's done in

52:37

video games. It was

52:39

like, they do art first. That's why they hire concept

52:41

artists. Yeah. And that guy got torn apart. Yeah, he

52:43

really did bad. Uh,

52:46

that was as close to a public stoning I've ever seen.

52:48

The GTA six trailer has a hundred million views in

52:51

the first, first day. Crazy. That

52:53

has just on YouTube. So on

52:55

Twitter and everywhere else. A

52:57

billion. And then if you combine all

52:59

the reaction videos as well, like God

53:01

damn. Yeah. Those twerk physics. You know

53:03

what I mean? They done did it.

53:05

Someone finally paid it out. Like they

53:07

spent those 10 years. Well, see the

53:10

giggles, see them gator physics. I'm excited.

53:12

I'm really excited. Yeah. I'm excited about

53:14

like the hype around the game for a

53:16

long time. Banger

53:18

of a video game. I rockstar

53:20

games get me because they are the only studio

53:22

in the world that can spend a billion dollars.

53:24

Like they're so nobody else in the games industry

53:26

exists in the place that rockstar does, which is

53:29

that they make GTA online, just makes a

53:31

shit ton of money and thus have all the money in

53:33

the world to fund the most expensive game ever made. Nobody

53:35

else can do it. You can go to any publisher and

53:37

they'll be like, we're not going to give you a billion

53:39

dollars to make a game. What's the return? And they're like,

53:41

but if we make GTA online and we make these short

53:43

cards and people keep buying them, we can use that money

53:45

to do this. And they're like, only ones that exist that

53:48

way. I'm surprised that there's still with take two, aren't they?

53:50

Yeah. Why aren't they self publishing?

53:53

I think that they're owned by take two. You can't really.

53:56

Yeah. And then they have to buy themselves out and I can't

53:58

imagine takes. He would ever let them do that. Yeah. Yeah,

54:00

the more game you make, the

54:02

harder buy. Exactly. Yeah, I believe

54:05

that was a Miyamoto quote. If

54:09

game come out early, sock. But

54:11

if delay, good baby. I

54:14

like that on the Noclip documentary, Gaben said like a

54:16

newer version of that and it was like sock is

54:18

forever. Yeah, sock is forever. Delay is for now. It's

54:20

like way better. Sock is forever, but delay is for

54:22

now. It's like that's just a Miyamoto

54:24

quote. He's not wrong. Yeah, it's like it's not as elegant, but I like it.

54:28

I went on the rabbit hole for it the other day and it was

54:30

originally said by a woman at a GDC talk, was

54:32

the earliest reference that anybody could find. And she was like,

54:34

I think someone else said it to me. I

54:37

don't even know, like it goes so far back. I

54:40

imagine it's like a phrase in the industry for a long time.

54:42

I think it's a phrase that I think is a good thing.

54:51

Yeah, it's like a phrase in the industry

54:53

for a long time. Yeah, suck is forever.

54:55

Justify, delay. Well, except in the case of

54:57

Cyberpunk, where suck was only temporary.

54:59

And No Man's Guy. Yeah, and No Man's

55:02

Guy. Huge one. Alana,

55:04

you've played a lot of Starfield. Yeah. What

55:07

are your thoughts on it now that you, how many hours

55:10

have you put into the game? Fuck Starfield. I'm not letting

55:12

anyone defend that on the podcast. I didn't play

55:14

any of it because I saw a lot of people play it and I

55:16

was like, I'm not going to like this game. I'm

55:19

not going to like this stuff in it that

55:21

I really like, but I do not like it

55:23

as much as any of the other Bethesda games. And

55:25

I think like when I try and think about why,

55:27

like I really got into the quest. If

55:29

you role play in that game and you really go

55:31

like, I am this character and I'm doing it, it's

55:33

really fun. And all of the faction quests are super

55:36

fun to get involved in. But

55:38

I think it maybe feels like a little

55:40

more like PG than there are the games.

55:44

So it doesn't have the same like humor

55:46

or silliness or like hints

55:48

of adult humor. Yeah, it feels more

55:51

producty. A little, yeah. And I guess that comes

55:53

from like it being NASA, like they clearly worked

55:55

with NASA on it. Yeah, it's a bit more

55:57

homogenized. Like I played like 12 hours of it

55:59

and I'm like. go back to Skyrim. I

56:01

think a lot of people have done that. It's a cohesion for

56:04

me where like Bethesda is known for like you leave the vault,

56:06

what's that over there? Go. Whatever happens along

56:08

the way. Right and they don't have that leaving the

56:10

vault moment I think hurt them more than anything else.

56:12

Yeah. That's so important. And the guy's like hey who

56:14

are you? You want my ship? Kill those guys. And

56:16

it's like wow. And

56:19

then you open a menu to fast travel.

56:21

Yeah and then you go into the fucking

56:24

temple for the tenth time and you follow

56:26

a ball of light. I will say that

56:29

mechanic is my least favorite thing about that

56:31

game. It's just so I guess

56:33

I just float towards. Yeah that's how I

56:35

get my magic power. Again every time. Why?

56:37

At least shout ball

56:39

is just like. It's really weird. Yeah

56:42

but they could have made it like a little

56:44

boss fight or like I guess like you fight

56:46

the Starborn afterwards. But every

56:48

time it's the same it's just such a weird

56:50

choice. I don't know why they do. It's also

56:52

weird because it shares so much of its aesthetic

56:54

and stuff I think with Destiny and the gunplay

56:56

and the guns kind of remind me of that.

56:58

So it's like kind of feels like I'm about

57:00

to get into a Destiny raid. That's a hard

57:02

one to come up against because Destiny's gunplay is

57:04

so good. It's never been as good as a

57:07

lot. Anyway. There is fun to be found

57:11

in the game. Just play Fallout or it's

57:13

been in Vegas or Skyrim. I want to go

57:15

back and play Fallout 4. Yeah I

57:18

didn't play a lot of that one. I didn't really like Fallout 4.

57:20

I played a lot of Fallout 4. I also didn't love it. I

57:22

love 3 and New Vegas. I didn't play a ton

57:24

of 4 I think because it was a bit

57:26

different. It was

57:28

just too simple. Yeah maybe. Like the

57:30

dialogue choices and the quests were all

57:33

kind of boring. Game of the year? It's

57:36

Bald Escape 3. Yeah it's probably. Yeah it's a fish of a bald

57:38

escape 3. Yeah. I did like your

57:40

video talking about the voting and the BAFTA stuff.

57:42

Try it every year because people are upset every

57:44

year. People are so sure Starfield

57:46

didn't get nominated because it's an Xbox game. It

57:48

doesn't work that way. And I like the hug

57:51

not that good thing. The hug was like 100%

57:53

games just not that good. It's like it's too

57:55

woke or not woken up or like people didn't

57:57

know what they were mad about. You

58:00

think everyone shares the same politics as each other?

58:02

It's also with Hogwarts legacy It's

58:05

really rare that games that come out early

58:07

in the year Get

58:09

voted for like this recency by Brumsaw. Yeah,

58:11

wait, when did that February

58:14

or March? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no, it might have

58:16

been January I don't

58:18

remember it was early though right at the

58:20

start like sure Resident Evil remake got nominated,

58:22

but that's Resident Evil remake I don't Really

58:25

agree with Resident Evil remake getting nominated for

58:27

the only time I've ever been okay with

58:29

it But I'm like that one in particular.

58:31

I'm okay with it Like I really

58:34

enjoyed it a lot But I was like I

58:37

I don't know how I feel about a remake being

58:39

nominated for me I'm gonna say a bold take didn't

58:42

really like the remake. No, I love it.

58:44

I love the original so much on

58:47

the remake Yeah,

58:49

I think I don't ps2. I

58:51

just bought it for fear Really

58:53

I love the original so much I think it's

58:55

as close to perfect as you can get a

58:57

very good game except for the tank controls. I

59:00

fucking hate the They

59:02

work so well for it moving and aiming

59:04

at the same time doesn't work for resi

59:06

for I'm already

59:08

that's the tension. It's true. That's why

59:11

it works and then you turn your

59:13

back here I don't something's crawling up.

59:15

I still feel that anyway throughout

59:17

the whole game It's very panic inducing

59:19

because the parrying and everything is like really cool

59:22

But then the whole time the boss fights are

59:24

all like lesser than they were in the original

59:26

I just I would agree with that Yeah, I

59:28

like it's less charming some of the voices are

59:31

less like silly some of the goofiness has gone

59:33

from it. Yeah, it's more polished

59:37

I I really like it and I Mean,

59:40

I've never finished Resident Evil before I've played it so many

59:42

times I don't have finished it before I even

59:44

on oculus dude if you play it on meta It's

59:47

so sick But

59:56

like to like to pull out a gun it's like you

59:58

have to pull it from your hip yeah grenades I'm not

1:00:00

wearing a chest so I punched myself in the boob every time I needed

1:00:02

a grenade. It's

1:00:04

so fun. I think that's why I like

1:00:06

Rezzy 4 original more because it's slower and

1:00:09

it's more intentional. It's true. Yeah,

1:00:11

I think they did a great job with the

1:00:13

remakes and I'm okay with it being nominated for

1:00:15

Game of the Year literally in this one instance

1:00:17

because it is different enough. I would also be

1:00:20

okay with Final Fantasy VII Remake. That's obviously completely

1:00:22

different. The Dead Space Remake is very similar other

1:00:24

than the level design is more cohesive. Yeah. It's

1:00:27

also come out this year. Yeah. This

1:00:30

year was a fucking long order. Bad

1:00:33

year for jobs. Great year

1:00:35

for the industry until it wasn't. Yep.

1:00:38

It's crazy to watch things be so profitable. Great as

1:00:40

a consumer, terrible as a worker. Real

1:00:43

bad. The vibe's off. Yep.

1:00:46

So we have to pack up. We're

1:00:48

being waived. Time? What

1:00:50

is it? Made up construct. It

1:00:52

is a made up construct actually. It doesn't. Nope.

1:00:56

Can't prove it. I know Baller's Game 3

1:00:58

is Game of the Year even though- Yeah. Alan Wake

1:01:00

2 is a close second. Yes. I would say

1:01:02

Alan Wake 2 takes all of my own boxes more than

1:01:04

I think Baller's Game. Are you going to the Game Awards?

1:01:06

Yeah. So excited to see the

1:01:09

Gods of Asgard. Is that the name? The band

1:01:11

live? Old Gods of Asgard. Poets

1:01:13

of the Balls. I'm so excited. Yeah. They

1:01:16

better play there and then it was like, it's a bit too

1:01:18

late for them to play there and now I'm like, Herald

1:01:20

of Darkness is happening. I'm getting dinner with Sam Lake

1:01:22

tonight. I know. And

1:01:24

I'm definitely going to be like, can I get a picture? And

1:01:26

I never asked anybody for a picture but it was like, Alex

1:01:28

Casey. He just followed me on Instagram.

1:01:30

Huge news for you. He likes my thank you miss

1:01:32

tweet. Or my thank you miss Instagram post. I

1:01:35

was like, dude, great game. And he was like, thank you. And

1:01:37

I was like, this is sick. And

1:01:39

he loves coffee. Alan Wake is the reason I

1:01:42

made a coffee company. Really? It's the reason I

1:01:44

started drinking coffee in the first place. Wow. And

1:01:46

all they wanted you to do is buy the Energizer bunnies and

1:01:49

you were like, no, it is coffee that I

1:01:51

will go for. Because he talked about like, try the

1:01:53

coffee. Don't fall in

1:01:55

love or you'll be upset when you have to leave. And I

1:01:57

was like, black coffee sounds so cool. Alan

1:02:00

Wake, so cool. All

1:02:02

right. Well, Alana, thank you

1:02:04

so much for coming. Anytime. Sorry, it's

1:02:07

a shorter episode, but we, um, fucked

1:02:09

up our timing. Yeah. Fine. People

1:02:11

wanted to find you on the places where they found

1:02:13

you with it. I'm at Char- I'm

1:02:15

at- I'm at Char Alana's art,

1:02:17

everywhere on the internet. It's my name in

1:02:19

the middle of Char's art. Thank

1:02:22

you. But if you

1:02:24

don't know how to spell Alana, Char Al will get

1:02:26

you close enough. Don't fucking worry about it. That's what

1:02:28

I always say. She's going to morph out with pregnant?

1:02:30

What happened to baby? What happened to baby? What

1:02:32

happened to baby? What happened to baby? Baby die.

1:02:37

Maybe- Samus wouldn't get pregnant on the job because

1:02:39

she's just killing monsters all the time. She doesn't

1:02:41

even have time to fuck. You

1:02:43

could do both. That's true. At the

1:02:45

same time. Yeah. Time

1:02:47

management. I think that's a salient point in

1:02:49

the song. Ludo

1:02:52

narrative difference. That's what I'm saying. What

1:02:56

is the fuck question next? I'm

1:03:02

Rachel and in my podcast, Woo Woo with

1:03:05

Rachel Dratch, I'll talk to my funny friends

1:03:07

about their own encounters with the eerie and the

1:03:09

unknown. Sure, you may think

1:03:11

we live in a world where there's a logical explanation for anything

1:03:13

out of the ordinary. But, after

1:03:15

you spend some time with me and my pals,

1:03:18

you might have your doubts and find that you

1:03:20

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